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Guest post: Training Culture vs. Learning Culture

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What’s the difference between a “training culture” and a “ learning culture ”? As the chart shows, in a training culture, responsibility for employee learning resides with instructors and training managers. In a training culture, the training and development function is centralized. The answer is, “A great deal.”

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ADDIE or Agile? A false dichotomy

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There’s a lot of buzz these days about whether we should abandon the training industry’s go-to model, ADDIE, for an Agile approach. This article in Learning Solutions Magazine goes into more depth, but here’s the gist of it. The discussion has been rich, with elegant arguments made on both sides.

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Why do we teach Agile to elearning developers?

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Our business is custom elearning development, not project management training. Here’s an article from Learning Solutions Magazine this week with an overview of the approach. In that article, you’ll see a line about Agile helps you “accept and expect change” – that came from an “aha” moment in one of Megan’s 3-day LLAMA classes.

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An Agile Year in Review

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Megan was out giving conference presentations & workshops at Training 2014, Learning Solutions, ATD’s ICE, Learning DevCamp, Online Learning, DevLearn. And we’re hosting a workshop Feb 3-5 at our Clocktower Labs training space in Chelsea, MI. ). Check out the links below to the year’s worth of articles and publications.

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The future is bright: corporate learning gets smart

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This article was also posted in Education & Career News. According to the Association for Talent Development’s 2015 State of the Industry Report 39% of all corporate training is delivered online, via mobile phone or remotely. It doesn’t seem like “training” – it’s all just part of the equipment start-up.

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Guest post: Informal Learning and the Pivot Point

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As David Grebow explained in his post about The Learning Curve and The Pivot Point , unless formal training (courses, workshops, seminars, webinars, etc.) As this chart suggests, if you fail to attend to the Pivot Point, your investment in training will be wasted. Guest Post by Stephen Gill.

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Let me take a moment…or rather, Eight Moments of Learning Need

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Gottfredson, Bob Mosher and many others are moving the training & learning world past a single event-based training model and really embracing all that we need to consider as we aim to support performance on the job. Oh, you ’ve been trained on that. Oh, to be a fly on that wall. Hallelujah!